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The family of a prominent lawyer who was gunned down outside his home just after Christmas has accused Bulgaria’s top law-enforcement official of ordering the killing. The deceased, Nikolay Kolev, was the deputy to Prosecutor-General Nikola Filchev until 2001, when he publicly accused Filchev of covering up a family member’s crimes. Forced into early retirement, Kolev told the papers that the prosecutor-general had been exhibiting signs of paranoia and was oddly fixated on him. After the murder, Kolev’s son, Georgi, told Bulgarian television that Filchev was surely behind it. “He had had him followed for three months,” Georgi Kolev said. “All Bulgaria knows who my father’s enemy was.” Filchev has threatened to file charges of slander over the accusation.
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